Quick summary
A date slicer in Power BI lets report viewers filter all visuals by a specific date or date range interactively. This tutorial walks through every step — from selecting the Slicer visual to customizing its display settings in the Format tab.
Steps
- Open Power BI Desktop and navigate to the Report View.
- From the Visualizations pane, select the Slicer visual.
- Drag the Date field from the Fields pane into the slicer.
- Confirm the slicer defaults to a Date Range display mode.
- Click the slicer to select it, then open the Format tab.
- Under Slicer settings, go to Selection and customize the date slicer options.
- Your date slicer is now ready to filter report data by date.
